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The Book of
Judges

Chapter
2

And the angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I made you
to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto
your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you:

and they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out
of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that
were round about them, and bowed themselves down unto them: and they provoked
Jehovah to anger.

And the anger of
Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of
spoilers that despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies
round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

And
yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they played the harlot after
other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out
of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah;
but they did not so.

And when Jehovah raised them up judges, then Jehovah was
with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of
the judge: for it repented Jehovah because of their groaning by reason of them
that oppressed them and vexed them.

But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they
turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other
gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their
doings, nor from their stubborn way.